French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday reshuffled his ministers for key domestic portfolios such as education, housing and urban affairs, as his government begins its response to riots that shook the country three weeks ago.
Macron has struggled to relaunch his second term in office, which has been plagued by domestic crises including months of protests over pension reform as well as the five days of riots over the police killing of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent at a traffic stop.
Macron also resurrected the urban affairs ministry, naming Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, a lawmaker of North African descent born in one of Marseille's northern housing blocks, to the post. The mayor of Dunkirk was brought in to run the housing ministry. In a pep talk to his lawmakers on Wednesday night, Macron said the government should refrain from imposing knee-jerk responses to the riots and look at what happened "in-depth" before drafting new policy, which he said could not simply consist of pouring more money into urban regeneration or adding more police.
It also exposes Macron's limited room for manoeuvre, having been shorn of his parliament majority in elections last year.
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